What's Happening in Baton Rouge Real Estate!

January 2011 home sales numbers are available for Livingston Parish and it looks like it was a pretty decent month.  There were 71 homes sold in January 2011 as compared with 81 in January 2010.  The average sales price was $160,000 and the median price was $146,000.  Livingston Parish homes are ...

January 2011 homes sales numbers are out for Ascension Parish and it looks like it was a pretty good month....There were 72 homes sold in January 2011 as compared with 74 in January 2010.  The average sales price jumped up to $220,000 with the median price moving up to $197,000.  Ascension Parish...

The January 2011 home sales numbers are out for East Baton Rouge Parish and it looks like it was weak month.  There were 186 homes sold in January 2011 as compared with 206 in January 2010.  The average sales price was $185,000 and the median price was $160,000.   East Baton Rouge Parish homes ar...

The National Association of Realtors has issued its quarterly median home price comparison and Baton Rouge & New Orleans fared very well in the report. The NAR measured the median home prices in Q4 2009 vs Q4 2010 for the 152 largest metropolitan areas in the US.  78 showed price appreciation whe...

The National Association of Realtors has released its Q4 2010 median home price analysis and the major Texas cities generally fared quite well.  Of the 4 largest metropolitan areas, only Dallas registered a price decline when comparing median price changes from Q4 2010 vs Q4 2009. Overall, the NA...

Some exciting news has just been released regarding the Rural Development Funding program and East Baton Rouge Parish.  Azalea Lakes and Hoo Shoo Too Lakes subdivisions have now been approved to participate in this program!  This is fantastic news for those of you who enjoy lake/water living, gre...

According to the latest data released from the 2010 Census, Ascension Parish is the fastest growing parish in all of Louisiana - with a growth rate over the last 10 years of 40%!  Ascension Parish is now the 14th largest parish in Louisiana.  In terms of raw numbers there are now 107,215 people i...

Numbers from the 2010 Census continue to be released and they are showing a population explosion in Livingston Parish.  Livingston Parish grew by nearly 40% from 2000 - 2010, increasing the population from 91,814 to 128,026!  The population growth was second only to an adjacent parish - Ascension...

The Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce has announced a new branding initiative for Baton Rouge as the 'Creative Capital of the South'.  To help support this launch - more than 60 local and regional business partners of the Chamber have agreed to use this branding/tagline with their own marketing eff...

CareerBliss has just released their annual report of the happiest US cities to work & live and New Orleans is ranked 13th! CareerBliss conducted company reviews from corporations all around the US and received 200,000 data points to build this list. They scored the following 8 factors for a happy...